Browse Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change by Subject "Desegregation"

Malone, Cheryl Knott(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

Houston Public Library operated as a racially segregated system until
1953, when it quietly changed its policy to one of token integration.
Occurring some seven years before the Houston Independent School
District began ...